A survey on reduced switch count multilevel inverters

HP Vemuganti, D Sreenivasarao… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An efficient and cost-effective power converter is a pre-requisite for the modern power
applications. With the evolvement of matured medium power self-commutated switching …

Hybrid neutral point clamped converter: Review and comparison to traditional topologies

D Zakzewski, R Resalayyan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In applications such as transportation electrification there are strict requirements regarding
efficiency, reliability, power density, and cost. Therefore, a diverse array of circuit topologies …

Hybrid multilevel inverter using switched capacitor units

E Babaei, SS Gowgani - IEEE Transactions on industrial …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, two new topologies are proposed for multilevel inverters. The proposed
topologies consist of a combination of the conventional series and the switched capacitor …

Review on single-DC-source multilevel inverters: Topologies, challenges, industrial applications, and recommendations

M Trabelsi, H Vahedi, H Abu-Rub - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Having a reduced number of switches and isolated DC sources yet generating a higher
number of voltage levels has been always the challenge when selecting the appropriate …

A simplified nearest level control (NLC) voltage balancing method for modular multilevel converter (MMC)

PM Meshram, VB Borghate - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a simplified nearest level control balancing method for modular multilevel
converter is presented. The proposed method neither requires individual sorting of the …

Sensor-less five-level packed U-cell (PUC5) inverter operating in stand-alone and grid-connected modes

H Vahedi, PA Labbé… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new mode of operation has been introduced for packed U-cell (PUC)
inverter. A sensor-less voltage control based on redundant switching states is designed for …

A seven-level inverter with self-balancing and low-voltage stress

J Liu, X Zhu, J Zeng - IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Based on the switched-capacitor (SC) principle, a seven-level inverter is proposed, which
can synthesize seven levels containing a single dc source. Moreover, it can further generate …

A new general multilevel converter topology based on cascaded connection of submultilevel units with reduced switching components, DC sources, and blocked …

RS Alishah, SH Hosseini, E Babaei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new cascade topology for multilevel converter is introduced in this paper which comprises
series connection of several submultilevel units. To determine the magnitudes of the dc …

Packed E-Cell (PEC) converter topology operation and experimental validation

M Sharifzadeh, K Al-Haddad - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel single-dc-source multilevel inverter called Packed E-Cell
(PEC) topology to achieve nine levels with noticeably reduced components count, while dc …

An active-neutral-point-clamped switched-capacitor multilevel inverter with quasi-resonant capacitor charging

PK Pal, KC Jana, YP Siwakoti… - … on Power Electronics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Switched-capacitor (SC) multilevel inverters (MLIs) offer various advantages over
conventional series MLIs owing to the operation from a single dc source, self-balanced …